If you’re a Wolverhampton Wanderers supporter looking to take a positive attitude into season 2013/14, consider this – at least there’ll be lots of local derbies for you to watch in League One, come August.

The release of the new season’s fixtures last week brought home the grim reality that there will be trips to northern outposts such as Carlisle, Bradford, Rotherham and Preston as well as journeys south to the likes of Brentford, Colchester and Crawley – who were playing Tamworth in the Conference as recently as April 2011.

It’s not a nice feeling for a club with the history that Wolves possess, but the fixture list does include a lot of reasonably local clubs.

Depending on your definition of the Midlands, you could say that there are derbies against Crewe and Port Vale to the north, Coventry to the south, Notts County in the east, Shrewsbury Town to the west and, of course, Walsall just a few miles along the A454.

If nothing else, it should encourage everyone at the club to support new manager Kenny Jackett in his endeavours to bring back a winning mentality to Molineux and to provide some impetus for a real promotion push.

To do that, Jackett has to assemble a determined squad of players who will get some self-belief, roll their sleeves up and put everything they have into the new campaign.

Anyone who doesn’t want to do that should be moved out of the club as quickly as possible. Granted it is not easy to move players on who are sitting on long and lucrative contracts. It won’t surprise regular readers to know that I believe that contingent includes Jamie O’Hara.

A player of whom I was regularly critical last season for both his mental and physical abilities, or lack thereof, O’Hara has made it quite clear in the last couple of weeks that he thinks he’s still a Premier League player and that he wants away from the three years remaining on his more-than-generous Molineux contract.

However, Jackett revealed last week that he hasn’t had a single phone call from another club to express any interest in taking O’Hara off his hands. It will be a very interesting meeting next week between Kenny and Jamie as the new head coach starts to get to grips with the high-earners still at the club.

I hope for Jamie’s sake that he has been working hard at his fitness. Players have to be very mobile to play at the top level of the game and this is something that he has struggled with since coming back from injury.

As a midfield player you have to be capable of getting from box to box and unfortunately for him at times last season he needed to call for a taxi! Whether he is capable of doing that is open to question.

He might think he’s a Premier League player, but then I sometimes think I’m still a top-flight player, but I’m 56 years old and it ain’t going to happen!

Sometimes, I think footballers of the likes of Jamie O’Hara are cocooned in their own little world and urgently need a reality check.

The club, of course, are the ones who agreed O’Hara’s money-spinning deal in the first place, and this again brings into question the due diligence undertaken before the player was signed.